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Even though there are so many bloggers writing the traffic generation ways, we would like to read all of them to get more visitors to our blog. I’m following most of the ways which you’ve listed here to get audience for my blog and SEO matters a lot. Doing keyword research helps to drive organic traffic and yes, it is upright to give importance for social media traffic too. I’m missing good traffic from Yahoo answers, will try to be active over there. Thanks for sharing this good post for us 🙂

Hi Erik,
This post is a typical sample of point #1 -satisfying your audience need. Everything else revolves around this point.

Your audience has the great need for traffic and that’s what you are providing in this post. No content is great until readers are satisfied with it. Once they are satisfied, they will help you bring more traffic.

SEO of course a the most converting source of traffic I have ever witnessed. Well, I know traffic from your targeted listed can be very great but this comes only after a mail is sent.

If we optimize for SEO, yes there is going to be great traffic.

Of course I can’t end this comment without confirming the fact the blog commenting is a great traffic tool. It does help in SEO and networking, which are all important components of online expansion.

Effective points you brought up here Erik and thanks for taking care of us your readers

Yes, who doesn’t love to get more traffic to their blogs, and you mentioned some great ways we can increase the traffic, in a very natural way, which again every blogger must do.

I would always vote for blog commenting foremost, having tried and tested that myself. Nothing works better than building relationships with fellow bloggers, which happens only through the comments we leave at each others blogs. This is one sure, natural, and safe way to increase one’s own blog traffic.

SEO does wonders, though I am glad everything has boiled down to working in moderation nowadays and keeping it all natural. Yes, one cannot deny the power of social media, and if used right, it can do wonders for your blog, again been there, done that, so one knows it does work!

I agree with Norbert about blog communities, especially the real ones like yours and a few others, and of course our very own ABC!

I can’t stop telling you how awesome is the work you are doing at Aha-Now community.
There are a lot to learn there!
Members are genuine, there is a true engagement, and your giveaways and contests are exciting.

I also like blog commenting.
It’s a nice way to get to know new people within your niche and at the same time, market your content.

I’m glad to be part of ABC,
keep up the fantastic job there, Harleena! 🙂

Knowing audience well enough to know what they need is so critical to growing a blog. We’ve both seen a lot of blog articles where people write short, pithy articles that neither benefit or help their readers.

You bring up a really good point…. I have experiencing of late a number of blogs who make it hard to share their content on social media. I’ve been suprised of late at how many blogs don’t even have share buttons.

If someone doesn’t make it easy, I don’t have the time to share it.

Of late, I’ve been taking the time to connect with related niches and comment on various business blogs, business journals, etc., where I know my direct audience is hanging out.

It’s been a great experience to define the many different direct and niche audiences where there is an opportunity to network with influencers who have direct access to the small and medium sized business owners I’m trying to help.

Don’t give up! WOW, how many have stopped before they really even got started. It takes six months or a year to really gain the traction you need to grow. It’s hard work, but it’s also a lot of fun if you just push through and keep working, connecting, relating, and helping others.

You are really right on point with this post! These are great ways to increase your traffic to your blog and if you stay consistent with it, you’ll see your blog flourish!

Points 1,2,3,4,6 are something I’m constantly doing. I noticed earlier this year when I implemented more SEO using a keyword within a couple of post that I started receiving a lot more traffic. Many of our visitors are constantly on Google doing research, so why not take advantage of making our post more SEO compliant to make it easier for our market to find us.

For a long time I ignored Google Analytics. Why? At first I didn’t think it was that important, and two, when I first saw it, I was intimidated by it LOL… Yes I admit it. But back then, it was pretty confusing and not as user friendly as it is now. But although it took me a couple of years, I finally figured it out. But yes, if you want to see how you can increase your traffic, Google Analytics is a great tool to see what part of your marketing you have to make those necessary changes in order to increase it. Especially when it comes to your sales funnel.

Being social on social media and commenting was and still is vital to me. I got a lot of my traffic through just commenting on different blogs and it was powerful when I first started in 2010 and still is today at the end of 2014. I really just started to become more social on social media this year and the mentions is a great indicator to search engines to send traffic your way. Search Engines, especially Google, are really being on being social now days!

Who wouldn’t want more traffic to our blogs? You have outlined many ways to get traffic and they all work.
I am a fan of #6 because commenting is the backbone of my own blog. There always is someone coming to my blog telling me that they found me on a comment I left on so and so’s blog post.

It is so important when commenting to leave an intelligent response to the post. Address the writer by name, reflect something about the subject matter and let’s not forget to say thank you! It is pretty powerful!

I am paying more attention to SEO lately. My little green light goes on in my back office and I’m good to go!

What I didn’t know was Yahoo Answers. I do have to check that one out! Never been there before! So thanks for this special tip!

The thing I really loved about this post was the diversity of the methods you mentioned. Diversification is so important both in blogging and in life in general. You never want to put all of your eggs in one basket.

I see a lot of people (newbies in particular) believing that the only way to succeed online is to rank highly in Google. I can’t help but worry for them when I hear them make a statement like that, because it’s not true at all! There are so many different traffic methods (many are way better than Google!) and you’ve listed some great ones here.

Thanks for introducing me to Tsu by the way. I’ll have to check that out!

The last one rocks as do all of them. Never give up. Keep going. Know why you’re blogging to rock it out.

I like being free more than I fear persisting. So I keep at it. Publishing helpful, thorough posts and commenting on authority, relevant blogs endears you to targeted readers. Traffic flows to helpful blogs, run by connected bloggers.

Make friends with folks. Make GOOD friends with folks to grow your network. I enjoy making buddies because our bonds make our blogging lives easier. Don’t go the Lone Wolf route. Been there, done that and it doesn’t work. Meet friends through commenting, over deliver by publishing inspired posts with appealing titles and keep on keeping on.

In time, and with patience, you’ll learn what you need to do and you’ll do what you need to do, to become a prospering blogger who drives steady, targeted traffic to their blog. Just keep at it and you’ll get it 😉

Let me take this occasion to congratulate you for being everywhere!
With blog commenting, or being featured with your inspirational story, I am seeing you all around the net.
Good for you, my friend! 🙂

You said “make good friends”.
I am happy to have you in my circles.
I can picture your smile with a paradise behind you in your traditional “selfie” photo.
Being kind is a surefire way to connect with more people.

Hi Erik,
Every blogger aims at pulling a jaw dropping traffic to their sites, and what else makes a blog stand if not a huge audience. You’ve just given a hot 10 ways to increase traffic to our blog’s

I guess you were right when you talked about satisfying your audience need, that’s where most bloggers (newbies) fail, they write whatsoever they come across, not minding if it will be beneficial to their blog readers, and when they write a post that is off-point to their readers their blogs become a bored island to their readers.

You’ve said it all, thanks for sharing and do have a wonderful day ahead. 🙂

Great tips as usual. All are really important to increase traffic and you mention here most of the latest SEO techniques.

Most of the people ignore the power of Yahoo Answer. But yahoo answer is really a great way to drive huge referral traffic if your blog niche is popular enough and it also help to get some quality no-follow backlinks.

My favourite of all is #10. Never give up as a blogger. I’ve been doing it for 2 years and I’m only starting to get what I want from it now. People don’t realise how hard blogging actually is and when they do they give up way too easily!

I haven’t used Yahoo Answers as a strategy but it sounds like a good one. I started using Quora which is quite similar so I might give Yahoo a go as well. Thanks for the heads up!

Well I can definitely agree with all of these methods and of course I have my favorites.

Now you know that blog commenting is at the top of my list because to me when you leave genuine comments people notice that. Keep doing that and people can’t help but get curious about you. There will always be people coming and going so there is always room for more and more traffic that way.

Triberr is another great source for me which I know you love as well. It’s just a great place to make some awesome connections and you know that’s what I’m mostly about. That’s why I love these particular methods because of the connections that can be made. Social media too, same goes for those platforms.

I will say that I’ve never had much luck with Yahoo answers mainly because of my niche and there just aren’t as many questions over there about blogging. Quora is another one but I never seem to have a heck of a lot of luck with either.

So I won’t go into the things most people say and that it’s one thing to get the traffic and another one to keep them on your blog because that’s a whole other post. The main thing is getting them there and it’s up to us to keep them coming back for more.

Thanks for sharing these with us Erik and I know others appreciate this as well.

This is one of the best traffic generation guides I’ve ever read. Pretty well explained. Well, for me, Google has always been the number one traffic source, my number one traffic generation method is writing more and more useful guides and content that are helpful to the readers, and this way, many other users mention our post links on forums and sites like Quora, Yahoo Answers etc. So, not only do I receive tons of organic traffic, but also I get a lot of referral visitors. Anyways, great post Erik, keep up the good work 🙂

All points well stated and I’m using most of the points that you’ve described . I have doubt on
Yahoo Answers – I really don’t know how to make it useful OR by just simply answering to any of user Q will draw their attention to my blog ?

Today I read about the “top-7-online-marketing-trends-that-will-dominate-2015” posted in Forbes and came to know about the “Ello” which is an “Anti-Facebook”. and powerful social media network in 2015

If you’ve not heard here some thing about “Ello” – About ( “Ello doesn’t sell ads. Nor do we sell data about you to third parties.” )

Every post you share, every friend you make, and every link you follow is tracked, recorded, and converted into data. Advertisers buy your data so they can show you more ads. You are the product that’s bought and sold.

I hope this info could be use full for bloggers, so shared , Ps excuse me:)

I think Social Media and Content is Main factor. Great content means more Organic Traffic, and more share in Sicial Media. More share Social Media means Its goes Viral. And when it goes Viral then you got a lots of traffic and Subscribers… 🙂

As a new blogger, i know very well that how difficult is for me to increasing blog traffic but one thing i can say surely that this post provided me several helpful solution and i am going to apply it on my all blogs.

Thank you so much Erik sir for sharing these 10 different Ways to Increase blog Traffic. Superb article 🙂

I am starting a blog about trending products around the world. I know it`s not very specific. But its in portuguese, and I am competing in Brazil ( I found very little competition for quality content here). So I think it`s niched enought to rank well.
The page rank average for first page in the keywords I want to compete are below 2. Do you think I should keep with this strategy?
And.. Do you have any tips for ranking in google besides backling and traffic. (technical stuff?)

Although points are common but still working for a long term traffic potential. People usually create useful contents but always forget about marketing their ideas. So, its great suggestion to leverage traffic of a website.

The last one rocks as do every one of them. Never surrender. Continue onward. Know why you’re blogging to shake it out.

I like being free more than I apprehension holding on. So I keep at it. Distributed supportive, exhaustive posts and remarking on power, pertinent web journals charms you to focused on perusers. Activity streams to accommodating sites, run by joined bloggers.

Make companions with people. Make GOOD companions with people to develop your system. I appreciate making mates on the grounds that our bonds make our blogging lives simpler. Don’t go the Lone Wolf course. Been there, done that and it doesn’t work. Meet companions through remarking, over convey by distributed propelled posts with engaging titles and fight the good fight.

In time, and with persistence, you’ll realize what you have to do and you’ll do what you have to do, to turn into a thriving blogger who drives enduring, focused on movement to their site. Simply keep at it and you’ll get it 😉